• dtrain@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      In an effort to relieve her PC of constantly deluge of virus and malware, I switched my Mom over to Ubuntu in the 2000’s. She lasted a month.

      The experiment ended when she called me in tears because of her silent 4 week struggle with the OS.

      She couldn’t get her scanner to work reliably, and none of her “print shop” software was compatible.

      I know more now than I did then, and the distros have come a long way since, but I don’t have the time to retrain her and at 70 years old, I just want her to use what she’s comfortable with, even if that means I have to occasionally scrub her PC.

    • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 months ago

      What concept is so foreign on mint or ubuntu that it would need explanation?

      My parents didn’t notice a difference (early 60s). Firefox, Spotify, and vlc, done.